In late 1995, the excessively violent video game with satanic undertones “DOOM” was estimated to be installed on more computers worldwide than Microsoft’s operating system Windows 95.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates responded with a million-dollar advertising campaign to convince people of the latter, which led eventually to a Windows 95 port to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

Some of you young folks may not realize that back in those days, Windows or iOS wasn’t the whole kit-and-kaboodle of your computing experience.

Anyway, the funny thing (to me) is that Gates was so seriously devoted to convincing people Windows was a suitable gaming platform, he actually had himself digitally superimposed into the game.

The kitchen sink

It is said that Netflix founder Reed Hastings began his DVD-by-mail (with no late fees) company after returning a copy of “Apollo 13” in 1997 only to be hit with a $40 dollar late fee.

That simple moment hatched an idea and brought two movie-rental giants — Netflix and Blockbuster — to blows.

Hastings once remarked that Blockbuster had thrown “everything but the kitchen sink at us” in their pursuit to take market supremacy.

The next day, Hastings received a large box in the mail from Blockbuster. Inside, he found a kitchen sink.

Happy little trees

You may be surprised to learn that grinning speed painter Bob Ross from PBS’ “Joy of Painting” fame enlisted in the United States Air Force at the age of 17.

Ross once said his position in the military required him to be “mean” and “tough” and “the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work.”

When Ross left the military, he vowed to never scream again.

Pyramid mayhem

So you want to be healthy, do you? So you want to make sure and eat all the correct foods and goodies so your mid-section is nice and trim and you can impress and attract the opposite sex?

Fortunately, we have a handy-dandy food pyramid to help discern which foods are best to eat.

Unfortunately, said food pyramid has been dissected and redone so many times it’s impossible to know which one to trust.

My favorite one was done by Harvard in 2008 and was designed to better reflect dietary science.

The pyramid includes spaces for exercise , multivitamins, tofu and alcohol. Unsurprisingly, the smallest segment of the pyramid is a tie between red meat, butter, sugary drinks, sweets and potatoes.